Apple seeking a Finder software engineer

Geo,

Your desktop's distracting because you run Windows :)

There shouldn't be more than a couple of icon's on your desktop anyhow.

And wallpaper? Why's it there if not to be seen?

And focusing on one app? Multitasking is much more productive...

To reply to the poster wondering whats up with Windows users and our obsession with full screen. I like my applicaitons to run full screen because the desktop is distracting. I like being able just to focus on my one app, not the wallpaper and icons and etc..

If you look at Apple's direction with Expose, Dashboard and Spotlight - A Quicksilver type solution would be the natural progression - descrete, invisable but easy to access and the power of Spotlight. Give it a year and we could see Blacktree claiming that apple have stolen their idea. . . . .

I might be missing something William, but after your post I tried Easyfind - I found it to be anaemic, especially after Quicksilver. . . . .

Badger

at least make the finder multi-threaded! I hate how it hangs all the time because it's waiting for some task to respond. urgh!

Pathfinder and Quicksilver are excellent finders, but I'll toss you another one. EasyFind, small and compact. I've used them all and stayed with EasyFind.

Really, i don't care what they do as long as it stays relatively clean looking like now, and they give us the option to sort folders first, always

Entica - Yeah, that's a good point, but a truly great file browser is lean and mean AND has the ability to add/enable all the features that Pathfinder has. I'm sure Apple has got some pretty good optimization programmers already so a hybrid of the two would be absolutely perfect. Imagine a base file browser like the Finder that starts out really simple that you could then modify or add additional content and features to. SWEET.

PathFinder, allthough cool, is a serious memory/cpu pig. The current finder is lean and mean. If they do a new finder (which it seems they're going to), please please please let it not be as bloated and resource hungry as PathFinder. I want PathFinder features but with Apple simplicity and low resource usage. Not everyone has 2gb's of ram and a dual G5 to run PathFinder well. Technically any computer can run PathFinder, but have fun watching your box crawl when you have PathFinder and multiple apps open (especially big ones like Photoshop) at the same time.

E.

Although the finder has some flaws, I'm perfectly happy with it really.

What's with Windows people and this obession with full screen windows anyway? Green button resizes the window to fit the information contained therein, what more do you expect to see by filling the screen?